Low level of cross-disciplinary collaboration contradicts the interdisciplinary nature of LIS?

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More research have to be done to a better use of bibliometric indicators for research assesment. One of the areas to focus should be to draw clear and consistent subareas to do consistent benchmarks when research evaluation is done. So that, we think more attention is needed to one of our conclusions: the lack of cross-disciplinary collaboration and the robust “coexistence” of authors from different disciplinary areas under the same Scopus/SJR subject category also have a bibliometric dimension that can affect researchers and institutions whose research results are evaluated according to the impact indicators of the titles in which they publish. Thus, the data obtained show that, although LIS-affiliated authors participate in a greater volume of work than any of the other areas identified, on the whole they publish in titles with a lower bibliometric impact than any of the other areas. In the case of both the Scopus SJR and WoS JCR quartile rankings, the LIS authors were ranked lowest by percentage of output published in first-quartile titles.

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